• silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    it made more sense when custom hardware for games could deliver more consistent results than what was possible from PCs. but that stopped being true in the 2010s so they just started buying the parts from the usual vendors. that’s also one of the reasons consoles got so much more expensive – they’re literally just PCs now and cost at least as much as.

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        4 months ago

        I want one too but I play so few games that I think it’s just pursuit-of-shiny-toy. if it weren’t linux, I’d already have talked myself out of it. but more linux games means I might actually play something other than Disco Elysium for the Nth time.

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          4 months ago

          Yeah I kind of want one as a shiny toy too. I was chatting with someone who plays Final Fantasy XI on it via a private server and I thought it was such a cool idea. But it’s honestly nothing I can’t already do on PC.

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                  Yeah XI also had a neat system where the game would auto translate between Japanese and English since the servers were merged between JP and USA so you could use a soft keyboard and type in keywords like “combat” or “magic” and it would auto complete and translate, to make up for the lack of a keyboard a lot of ps2 users faced.